Following the successful spanish-language workshop in Spain, the SWAD-E project will be taking advantage of an opportunity to participate in a workshop in Argentina in August. This continues the outreach to non-english speaking developers that is one of the goals of the project.
Thanks to the Universidad Kennedy of Buenos Aires, Diego Ferreyra of the Argentine government, Eva Méndez, Leandro Mariano López, and others, the workshop bring developers together to discuss their work, and examine how to learn from the SWAD-E project to further development of the Semantic Web. The workshop will take advantage of two conferences taking place in Buenos Aires bringing interested participants from around South America who will be able to participate in the workshop.
Further visibility of work being done in non-english languages, such as spanish and french, should increase the quality of work taking place across Europe, not just in the english-speaking countries of the world. The investment made by the SWAD-E project in this area has already shown important returns in increased dissemination of work in a number of languages, and in collaboration that has improved the quality of individual projects.
There are a number of presentations and documents in languages other than english linked from the project home page. Other resources include the recent workshop on "metadata in a multilingual world", and the geographic information project being developed primarily in french.